A Nigerian woman has committed suicide following the closure of her shops by Ghanaian authorities, the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTs), Ghana Chapter, reported in Abuja yesterday.
The
association disclosed this during a visit to the Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, to seek
the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter.
The President of NANTS,
Ghana, Chief Chukwuemeka Nnaji, said Mrs Stella Ogonna Okpaleke, a mother of
three children, committed suicide on Sept. 22 after her shops were locked for
failing to meet strict trading conditions put by the Ghana Government.
“She
is from Nnewi Local Government (Area) in Anambra; we actually don’t know how
much she owed, but we learnt that she took loan for her business,” he said.
He said the harassment
on the Nigerian community and traders in Kumasi, Ghana, is so severe and called
on Buhari to urgently intervene to avert similar incidents in the future.
In
her remark, Dabiri-Erewa appealed to members of the union to remain calm and
assured them that the president would intervene in their case to ensure a
lasting solution to the problem.
Nigerian
traders were shut out of their business premises in line with an eviction order
of July 27.
The
Ghanaian authority is demanding that traders must have one million dollars as
minimum foreign investment capital to do business in Ghana as stipulated in its
Ministry of Trade and Industry Act, 2013.
- NAN
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